skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Setting up a mail server is now more complicated due to blocking of residential blocks, specific IP addresses needing good reputation, and the general stance taken by most MTAs is to assume senders are guilty until proven innocent. Setting up Mastodon now is easier than setting up email in the past - you don't even have to worry about DKIM or not spamming - most Fedi instances consider other instances innocent until proven guilty, a slow and human-powered process.

Sender-reputation management and anti-spam automation is far advanced and far more stringent for email than it is for Mastodon/the fediverse. Setting up a Mastodon instance is a matter of installing a package and going through a browser wizard comparable to setting up a Wordpress instance, not difficult at all.
yes, Fuse is extremely slow (and FlexSearch is very fast after indexing is done), but i have no idea how that table presents FlexSearch as having the lowest memory footprint, maybe in its default config?

in my testing of fuzzy/substring matching it takes quite a while to create its huge index: https://github.com/leeoniya/uFuzzy?tab=readme-ov-file#perfor...
I see some people talking about OpenAI "stealing" IP from the nonprofit side, but remember that they went "capped profit" back in 2019. It's possible that GPT-3 and later were developed entirely by the capped-profit side anyway. I doubt there's much if any pre-2019 IP left.
Things like one instance banning another whole instance because that instance is not agreeing to the same moderation policies as the first.

I think some instances block all Pleroma instances, because there is an association of Pleroma being used by right wing folks.

Here are failed attempts to ban Pleroma instances outright:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/11816
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/9708

Here's an example of an instance that blocks other instances if the other instance doesn't have a code of conduct similar to theirs:

https://mastodon.art/about

Note - they partially block mastodon.social!
The Soarer's converter has a 1000Hz polling rate, the same as most modern high-end gaming keyboards. I imagine any additional delay you would feel over using the keyboard on a 5150 is more likely caused by the added latency inherent to modern OS's, triple buffering, compositing, etc. compared to DOS programs.
The grain market is a function of government regulation and price controls. The difference there is we scaled it up.

Ever wonder why thousands of Mexicans woke up one day and decided to walk across the desert, never to return? Well, we flooded the market with massive quantities of subsidized corn and put their farms out of business. We did the same thing domestically with other commodities in places like New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

With dairy, you had in-state production requirements and quotas that maintained a balance in price. A smallish dairy farm could support a household reasonably prosperously — there were thousands of farms in places like New York. Now you need thousands of cows to survive - that why milk is often cheaper than water in the supermarket.

But just like WalMart, it gutted a key price of the rural economy. Hell, I watched it happen on a farm I worked on, that operated since the 1600s under the Dutch. Since the early 2000s they board horses for rich people to pay their property taxes.
It's more of a distilled model, not a fair 1:1 comparison
teachmint ?
Did you misread? No one mentioned LM studio, open-webui (frontend) is open source and usually uses ollama (backend) which is also open source.

Jan and Librechat are both less popular than either open-webui or ollama, how do their features compare?
If you’re going to downvote, please consider leaving a comment—I’d really value the feedback.

I’d like to see more thoughtful discussion here. The debate often feels stuck between oversimplified takes like “It’s just a commodity” and “No, it’s a game changer!” Let’s assume for a moment that OpenAI operates as a commodity business but still figures out how to become profitable, even with small margins. After all, US Steel was a commodity and became hugely successful.

Given these assumptions, why do you think OpenAI might not succeed? Let’s move the conversation forward.
> BlueSky became immediately political in its narrative and many people just view it in the same light as Truth Social now.

I don't see this at all. Quite the opposite in fact.

From what I've seen, BlueSky is trying very hard as a company to stay apolitical in an extremely naive way that's going to ultimately drive away users. There's simply no way to to be apolitical as a general social media platform today when social media is so widely used for discussing politics and current events, is a key target for propaganda campaigns, and in a highly fractured political climate.

BlueSky gained momentum primarily from people who were driven away from X as it started to move further right, with a lot of engagement driven by left and center-left leaning people, along with people who might not have been directly engaged in politics except for being the target of right-leaning hate campaigns (LGBT people in particular).

If they'd doubled down on that, I think they'd be a lot more successful in the long run. Sites like Truth Social, Parler, and X have demonstrated that there's a significant market for politically aligned social media spaces for the right, and both the significant activity in left and center-left spaces in Twitter before the buy-out, and the growth in Bluesky point to there being a significant market for an unapologeticly left leaning social media site as well (I'd point to Tumblr here as another example, although I don't use it and only have a passing idea that it seems to be a predominantly left leaning space).

Instead of embracing product market fit with an underserved market though, BlueSky seems to be both-sides-ing themselves into a situation where they're likely going to see an exodus. By inviting and protecting right-wing provocateurs on the platform they are driving away their core audience in order to attract people who already have their choice of established competitors (X). The only value they can add over sites like X and Truth Social is a group of users ready to be the target of trolling and bullying, but having recent experience with migrating away from Twitter I don't see them sticking around BlueSky for long in that environment.

In the end, the attempt at being apolitical will doom BlueSky to being a worse less populated X or Truth Social, rather than making the most of the opportunity to be a more decidedly left-leaning social media platform for an audience that prefers to avoid a strong right-wing presence in their social media experience.
You're not listening. NYFD calls ALL "mobility device" fires "ebike fires."

You can quote articles all you like - they're all based off NYFD's lies.
Maybe the US will break up, and then some parts of the US will join Canada.

As big as the political problems the US has been having in recent years are, I don't think that's likely to happen in the short-to-medium term. But, if these problems just keep on getting worse, then eventually it may become a very real possibility.
Not OP, but for starters, the referendum in my country about joining EU did not ask whether we should give our independence away to the EU. If people would have been told the actual goal, the referendum would have probably never passed. The EU is not a legitimate democracy.
> The Lanier machine, which sells for about $12,000, takes up about the same amount of desk space as an electric typewriter but is taller by a foot or more because of the cathode-ray display screen.

It is amazing how much the price of word processors has declined over the years. It has dropped from $12,000 to free, provided you have a PC on which to run it:

https://www.openoffice.org/product/writer.html

I wonder if President Carter had to pay for his or if it was free for him given that having him use it was likely was a great advertising opportunity at the time.
That's very interesting!

My first thought, looking at the webpage: "Huh, that's neat. I didn't know that painting software didn't even attempt to do color mixing beyond naive interpolation, though I guess it figures; the physics behind all the light stuff must be fairly gnarly, and there's a lot of information lost in RGB that probably can't be just reconstructed."

Scrolling down a bit: "Huh, there's some snippets for using it as a library. Wait, it does operations in RGB? What's going on here?"

Finally, clicking the paper link, I found the interesting bit: "We achieve this by establishing a latent color space, where RGB colors are represented as mixtures of primary pigments together with additive residuals. The latents can be manipulated with linear operations, leading to expected, plausible results."

That's very clever, and seems like a great use for modern machine learning techniques outside the fashionable realm of language models. It uses perceptual color spaces internally too, and physics based priors. All around very technically impressive and beautiful piece of work.

It rhymes with an idea that's been floating in my head for a bit - would generative image models, or image encoder models, work better if rather than rgb, we fed them with wavelength data, or at least a perceptually uniform color space? Seems it'd be closer to truth than arbitrarily using the wavelengths our cone cells happen to respond to (and roughly, at that).
So your "follow" list is required to be public? Seems like a design flaw.
In the beginning was the Vector, and the Vector was with God, and the Vector was God.
> I feel like there's a lot of appealing to prevailing HN sentiment in this post. So much so that there's little substance.

IMO, there was plenty of substance, on things a lot of HNers either don't realize, or disregard.

> that there stops being concrete actionable complaints and more just general anger.

Good point in general (and ironic, since that too is a tired, pervasive condition that somehow still needs pointing out, even if it seems like you're just complaining ineffectually in doing so).

But, since the Bluesky concerns apparently needed to be said, to inform people who appear not to understand, then saying it isn't just complaining.

> At times a cynical portion of me even thinks this sort of posting is just low-key karma farming too, but I know that's too uncharitable a take,

If want to verbalize uncharitable takes on HN, be careful what you start. Your own comment could've been bog-standard damage control astroturfing.
> Back then, Google spent heavily to index websites without a clear path to profitability

[citation needed]

Google's goal was always advertising just like every other search engine.
I get the moat idea. But are there really any moats? What's a good moat these days anyway? Isn't being first and "really good" fine as well?
Meaning what?

I mean, yes, I know what a flag is. I don't know what your point is.
> do not think it would have stopped usb-c

Why?

> in the same way that the current legislation does not prevent revising it.

How would that work? USB-C became widespread because manufacturers gradually started adding it to their devices instead of micro-USB/whatever. As far as I understand that would be illegal now? So how could any new standard gain any traction?
I remember, when I was just starting, the founder of the company saying that if you tell him you're offering an 'engine' that's mostly saying you don't have an app. Of course, some successfully sell 'engines', but I think there's a basic truth that you need users to make your business work and make what you're building better and battle-hardened, and to get those users you usually have to be providing just what someone's looking for, and that often means making an app.

Some 'frameworks' or 'engines' budded off from work on a concrete problem, e.g. Django first for a specific CMS, Rails from Basecamp, Unreal Engine from Unreal the game. Work's not as much of an 'engine' as those are, but it's definitely turned out a big focus is on how customers can build their own stuff (both in the frontend and the data side) and integration. But for anyone to care about all that it has to be an app first!
That’s why you verify the information from other sources.
You are confusing authentication (even less relevant in context than encryption actually) with authorization.

Doing proper authorization without cryptography is difficult. Mixing it up with authentication is unnecessary but popular.

The authn/authz distinction is more impactful than encryption/cryptography nitting. Signatures are just encryption with a public key, yknow?
Wow, this is really cool color mixing! It’s strange how come they haven’t been bought (yet) by a big company like Adobe.
People keep saying stuff like this, but I don't believe it: "There is no technical moat in this field, and so OpenAI is the epicenter of an investment bubble."

AI progress is driven by strong valuable data. Detailed important conversation with a chatbot are much more valuable that quick search queries. As LLMs extend past web UIs, there is even more interaction data to capture and learn from.

The company that captures the most human-AI interaction data will have a TREMENDOUS moat.
Getting old has always been bad, but COVID paused most people’s mental calendars for about three years so the kicks hurt worse. “Oh that was six… no that was a decade ago. Fuuuck.”
From what I'm reading of the industry, no not really. The laughably huge investments seem to buy OpenAI approximately a 6 month head start over open source models, which is not much.
I don't need to wonder, I can see the vivid trail through history of oppression, hate, violence, and destruction of humanity and everything it builds.

> natural behaviours

Always the argument of people perpetrating evil (or nonsense): It's natural! Murder, rape, hatred ... killing your sibling or parent is natural - it's in the Bible! Starvation, disease, warfare, cheating on your partner, theft, ... every bad thing is natural.

So is every good thing, and many/most/all cultures have long said you have the moral choice, in Abrahamic religions ever since we left Eden. We have the knowledge of good and evil.

> A population that actively resists or perverts these natural behaviours through xenophilia is not long for this world.

Nothing is worse for humanity than warfare, and it's common cause is xenophobia and nationalism. The West has done very well embracing new immigrants. The USA is almost all immigrants or their decendents.

You don't have to embrace hate or these nonsense arguments. The treasures of freedom and peace and justice are at hand; you only have to take them up. They are far more capable and productive than these fears - look at the most free, most safe, most prosperous countries in the history of the world, with no peers or competition. They are all built on universal human rights - universal!
Note “a factor” - you could say the same about the peaceful space program, computer age, biotech, etc. Most of the world was advancing faster than the USSR in every way and there’s no reason to think that arc wouldn’t have continued under a second Carter administration.
Beware of the licence however
These systems will collapse over time because the incentives are being removed for them to exist. So you won’t be able to point to your answers in quora or whatever but they’ll live in the training records and data and in some shape in neural nets being monetized.

I’m not like anti what’s happening or for it, it’s just, that social credit depends on those institutions surviving.
At the 48GB level, L40S are great cards and very cost effective. If you aren’t aiming for constant uptime on several >70B models at once, they’re for sure the way to go!
That's one that I use as an example too, but maybe only out of ignorance ? (Wasn't the Vietnam War pretty bad too ?)

Though I guess that things were quite different during the Cold War...
Has someone said that's a risk or an issue for the people who use them? They probably also are bad in a flood, but is that a real risk? Isn't that true of most shelter?
So how would anyone prove that its “noticeably better” while not being allowed to use that standard on any device?

People keep repeating the same thing but it just makes no sense..
There are serious proliferation concerns surrounding nuclear waste reprocessing.

Btw Carter put solar panels on the white house.
Network effects are a moat.

A vertically integrated system that people depend on with non-portable integrations is a moat.

Regulatory Capture is a moat.
Thank you, that's wonderful, I'll be sleuthing there and getting a feel for things. Cheers!
> Remarkably, the Inca managed to forge this vast society without the wheel, the arch, money, iron or steel tools, draft animals capable of ploughing fields or even a written language.

No horses until they were reintroduced by the Spanish. Minimal mobility. California had 500 distinct tribal groups before the Spanish arrived. The increased mobility allowed disease to wipe out about 90% of the indigenous peoples in North America before 1600.
| What actual things are you worried about or unhappy

That it is following the same funding model that resulted in the problems we've seen. Bluesky currently doesn't generate any significant revenue. At some point they will have to in order to satisfy investors. If they were concerned about preventing the problems previous social media sites experienced, they would have sought out a different funding model.

| if you have problems with its decentralization posture

I don't. I was working on federated social networking protocols back in 2008. I'm fully aware of the concerns and I know it's not a panacea. Centralization has strong benefits for user safety and experience.

| there stops being concrete actionable complaints

My other comments expand on the biggest issue which is the advertiser-optimized engagement algorithm. A site which does not cater to advertising (using an alternative source of income such as a user-driven subscription model) can instead maintain a time-based feed. This is a much better user experience. It doesn't favor negative engagement, it's less addicting, and it doesn't create artificial virality.
There is no profit yet...
Depends on the size of the bird.

They can definitely go through plane windshields.

https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-f40a81ebb9201ba52c7e3...
This is absolutely madness
I’ve been very happy on X. My algo keeps showing me memes and tech stuff. Very little political grandstanding… but it did get a little warm during the election.

A lot of Ai guys are X with cool stuff and still a ton of great posts in Japanese if you can read it.
In case it helps, Bill Mounce has one or two classes on Biblical Greek via his free seminary:

https://www.biblicaltraining.org/learn/institute/nt201-bibli...

(Note: They actually host free classes from instructors at over a dozen seminaries. Mounce himself is a top expert in Greek.)

For anyone learning Biblical Hebrew, I found Master's Seminary has some courses on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvh8yziVsCE&list=PL9392DD285...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joDB5azc_CM&list=PL4DC84F8EB...
Where is there a shortage of landlords? I've never heard of it, but it would be an interesting phenomenon!
Like what?

I cited two well documented situations where the PRC paid Chinese expats to steal specific materials to help PLA owned firms develop specific products.

Show me something other than whataboutism and double talk.
Carter created the Synthetic Fuels Corporation, whose main remit was various coal-to-oil schemes. Add in 1980s tech and you end up with such incredible pollution* that even strip mining everything is more environmentally friendly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_Fuels_Corporation

* You start from coal which has more carbon than oil in any grade you choose, and then add the extra inefficiency of the process so you need more coal than had you burnt it directly. It's like burning coal in a super inefficient manner.
When you're driving the highway from the international airport at Keflavík to Reykjavík, the first big building you see is a massive Rio Tinto aluminum smelter: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ATHxAWRLKLMf8Gbh8
You mean underground
> Self hosting website as local server running in your room? what’s the point?

It depends on how important the web site is and what the purpose is. Personal blog (Ghost, WordPress)? File sharing (Nextcloud)? Document collaboration (Etherpad)? Media (Jellyfin)? Why _not_ run it from your room with a reverse proxy? You're paying for internet anyway.

> Same with LLMs, you can use providers who don’t log requests and SOC2 compliant.

Sure. Until they change their minds and decide they want to, or until they go belly-up because they didn't monetize you.

> Small models that run locally is a waste of time as they don’t have adequate value compared to larger models.

A small model won't get you GPT-4o value, but for coding, simple image generation, story prompts, "how long should I boil an egg" questions, etc. it'll do just fine, and it's yours. As a bonus, while a lot of energy went into creating the models you'd use, you're saving a lot of energy using them compared to asking the giant models simple questions.
> Europe is making good money by investing in America

Except it’s not. The gap had been continuously growing for the last 10-20 years. Europeans are just getting (relatively) poorer and poorer.
Very interesting question. I can only look at the local history of the place I grew up in, but in our case the accessibility of computers post '95 created the computer geek to a large extent. People wouldn't have locked themselves up in their bedrooms for their whole teenage years otherwise.
Although there were many geeky/nerdy alternative hobbies, consider that as an alternative we might have just got out of the bedroom and spent more time socializing and doing other more normal and less geeky hobbies.

But to answer you question: if I didn't have internet, specifically, I'd be spending more time at the local library. Besides that, electronics, cars/motorcycles/engines, carpentry, model aircraft, gardening and animal husbandry are things I could see myself dabbling in but probably not with the same intensity and single focus so not directly comparably to the time I spend tapping on a keyboard.
Why then does it have a hard time being a judge for MTG rule interactions?
Gruber is OG. You should look him up.
Currently 20 of 27 EU members have the Euro adopted.

> an EU member state (present or future) cannot be forced to adopt the Euro

Future members can be forced. They won't become EU members, without a clear will to adopt the policies which lead to the Euro.
Genuinely curious if anyone has ideas how an LLM provider could moat AI. They feel interchangeable like bandwidth providers and seem like it will be a never ending game of leapfrog. I thought perhaps we’d end up with a small set of few top players just based on the scale of investment but now I’ve also seen impressive gains from much smaller companies & models, too.
It’s ancient history now but in 2012, the team behind the Paper drawing app for iPad shared interesting details about their color mixing: https://www.fastcompany.com/3002676/magical-tech-behind-pape...

In short, they first implemented realistic pigment mixing behavior. But in user testing it turned out non-painters are not good at getting the color they want by mixing; you usually end up with brown. So they had to make an unrealistic mixing algorithm that felt more intuitive.
> And yet people will mock you for saying that both parties are the same.

"Just say no" to nihilism[0].

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism
> What really matters here isn't the letter of treaties, it is the political reality that it ain't happening.

And the political reality is that no one in the EU wants to widen the discussion to countries like Morocco, so the rule that the country must be in Europe is useful.